Its time to Fire Dustin Glant and Possibly Jeff Mercer

[Dude Where Is My Car]

I know our pitching coach is a well respected guy but he has ruined the staff and to a lesser extent the program. Whatever mechanics he is teaching is not working and the fact they have been unable to identify starters who can go a reasonable amount is 100% on him.

It's got to be Glant gone after this season and if not him Mercer and if they don't care Dolson. It was so nice for five yrs having a baseball program that was in the main stream discussion of IU athletics. Now it has faded into close to the same irrelevance it was pre-Tracy Smith and be replaced by women's basketball as the third sport every Hoosier fan follows (and I am not at all mad about that but let's be good at everything).

Glant may have possibly been the worst hire this department has made in a long time and that says a lot for an assistant. Never have I seen someone single handedly ruin a great pitching staff.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

I know our pitching coach is a well respected guy but he has ruined the staff and to a lesser extent the program. Whatever mechanics he is teaching is not working and the fact they have been unable to identify starters who can go a reasonable amount is 100% on him.

It's got to be Glant gone after this season and if not him Mercer and if they don't care Dolson. It was so nice for five yrs having a baseball program that was in the main stream discussion of IU athletics. Now it has faded into close to the same irrelevance it was pre-Tracy Smith and be replaced by women's basketball as the third sport every Hoosier fan follows (and I am not at all mad about that but let's be good at everything).

Glant may have possibly been the worst hire this department has made in a long time and that says a lot for an assistant. Never have I seen someone single handedly ruin a great pitching staff.

A little emotional outburst after a bad inning. Feel better?

 

[Dude Where Is My Car]

A little emotional outburst after a bad inning. Feel better?

No. I know IU has a top offense. Nothing has changed that. As long as Glant is pitching coach though you are not giving pitchers or team best chance to win and it puts a ton of pressure on our elite offense.

 

[Orford]

His pitching staff is much better this year. Yeah they put a freshman out there who’d been doing well started the game I’d bad weather and couldn’t control and then levy needed to come in with very little warmup in same weather I said ugh but to his credit he settled down. Kraft hasn’t been perfect but I’d be surprised if he doesn’t become a starter. He was one of the best pitcher in appy league last summer as a starter. I don’t think glant is going anywhere and the turnaround after being down by 6 after t1 is impressive

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Still haven’t given up another run with one out in the 9th. Overreact much?

 

[ptrich]

There's no question that the pitching situation has improved this season when you look at the team ERA right now. The walks up to this point are very close to the pace last year so that is of concern, but they haven't hurt IU as much this season up to this point as they did last season, although today would be the exception to that, and we overcame that. IU was dead last in the B1G last season in team ERA, walks, hit batters and WPs.

As of the start of the conference season and not counting today's game, here is where we rank in the conference in team ERA, walks, WP, HBP (hit batters.) and we have to remember that not all schedules within the B1G are equal in strength and the number of games played vary:

Team ERA - 3rd best
Walks - 6th best
WP - 4th best
HBP - 4th best

We still have a long way to go with the conference season starting today, and it was in the conference season last year when we saw our positioning in those pitching areas balloon to the point of being dead last overall.

We just need to wait and see how things pan out the rest of the season. Our pitching definitely improved at the end of last season and in the B1G tournament, so there's that.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

No. I know IU has a top offense. Nothing has changed that. As long as Glant is pitching coach though you are not giving pitchers or team best chance to win and it puts a ton of pressure on our elite offense.

Luke Hayden sure did look good yesterday to close things out, don't you agree?

 

[rcaulfie]

17-7, current RPI 24.....3-0 in the Big Ten after sweeping our first series - against a team that had a higher RPI going in. ERA is sitting at 4.67 after finishing last year at 7.04. But yeah.....let's fire the whole coaching staff, lol. The season is still young, so who knows how the rest of the conference games will play out, but I will say this: you sure don't look like the sharpest tool in the shed, at the moment.

 

[Dude Where Is My Car]

Look: IU has succeeded so far and I am hoping it keeps up.

However, the way Glant is building this by throwing an inning at a time with guys out of the pen is not likely to succeed going forward this year or long term. The offense is terrific and IU has a good bullpen but you will not win to many more Big Ten series against other teams' aces with one starting pitcher. That is not how baseball works and if it did more teams would do it. There is a reason no one but IU is throwing relievers one or two innings at a time and that is because it does not work for a whole season.

I stand by what I said that Glant's style is not working and their are still way to many walks and a lack of a development with starters. I hope IU wins in spite of him, but any success will again be solely the offense outscoring teams which is not going to work forever.

If IU wants to reach its ceiling they need a new pitching coach.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Look: IU has succeeded so far and I am hoping it keeps up.

However, the way Glant is building this by throwing an inning at a time with guys out of the pen is not likely to succeed going forward this year or long term. The offense is terrific and IU has a good bullpen but you will not win to many more Big Ten series against other teams' aces with one starting pitcher. That is not how baseball works and if it did more teams would do it. There is a reason no one but IU is throwing relievers one or two innings at a time and that is because it does not work for a whole season.

I stand by what I said that Glant's style is not working and their are still way to many walks and a lack of a development with starters. I hope IU wins in spite of him, but any success will again be solely the offense outscoring teams which is not going to work forever.

If IU wants to reach its ceiling they need a new pitching coach.

MLB teams, more an more, are using that 5th starter day as a bullpen day.

 

[Dude Where Is My Car]

MLB teams, more an more, are using that 5th starter day as a bullpen day.

Key word is '5th starter day'. Other teams are using starters who can pitch normally six innings four out of every five day. IU is doing a bullpen day three out of four or four out of five games each week. That is a huge difference and not a winning formula.

Thank you for proving my point that what IU is doing in unprecedented and not likely to work.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Key word is '5th starter day'. Other teams are using starters who can pitch normally six innings four out of every five day. IU is doing a bullpen day three out of four or four out of five games each week. That is a huge difference and not a winning formula.

Thank you for proving my point that what IU is doing in unprecedented and not likely to work.

Unprecedented, perhaps. Unlikely to work remains to be seen. You've made up your mind. I haven't. And we're 40% of the way thru the season and have a pretty good record.